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Travel with Children: Your Complete Resource Lonely Planet, $19.99 Under the best of circumstances, traveling can be a challenge. When children are involved, it can get even more complicated. The...
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'Moon Handbooks: Minneapolis & St. Paul' Avalon Travel, $17.95 All of the famous Twin City landmarks are here, from the Walker Art Center and its remarkable sculpture garden to sites...
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"London" (Rizzoli, $195; includes a signed print) There are big books and then there are big books. This one is the latter: a huge, oversized photo book, in a limited...
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"ULTIMATE ADVENTURES: A ROUGH GUIDE TO ADVENTURE TRAVEL" (Rough Guides, $24.99) You know who you are. It really doesn't take much to separate the true adventure travelers from wanna-be adventure...
Midwest guidebooks
"Backroads & Byways of Missouri: Drives, Day Trips & Weekend Excursions" (Countryman Press, $16.95; ISBN: 978-0-88150-775-1) Archie Satterfield is a veteran journalist who, as the title indicates, loves to meander...
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Special-interest guides "Tour America: A Journey Through Poems and Art" (Chronicle Books; $17.95) Poet Diane Siebert and artist Stephen T. Johnson combined their talent to produce this creative venture, an...
A smoky train ride through America
Purposeless travel has been vastly underrated. In "Stranger on a Train," Jenny Diski turns it into an art form. Her plan is to make a rambling journey around America and...
Adventure narratives”True North: Exploring the Great Wilderness…
Adventure narratives "True North: Exploring the Great Wilderness by Bush Plane" (Lyons Press; $24.95 hardcover) The title of this book certainly lives up to its name, as author and bush...
TRAVEL NARRATIVES
PICK OF THE WEEK "Without Reservations: The Travels of an Independent Woman" (Random House, $23.95) Alice Steinbach has gone ahead and done what many of us wish we had the...
Cradle of Mormonism
On the western edge of the Illinois prairie in a bend of the Mississippi River once stood a city of celestial light. The Mormons called it Nauvoo, old Hebrew for...